Unorganized

The final exam is soooooo difficult and not what we learned from the lectures. She didnt give hints on mastering chemistry and post formula sheet before exam. The worst prof!

Put emphasis on the most useless parts of the syllabus so you have two pages full of notes on batteries but two sentences on dry cells. She does not go through the practice questions in lecture as she should; she doesn't walk you through it, she tells you the steps and then says 'and that's your answer'. Office hours aren't helpful either.

Absolute worst, does not even care if her student do well. Made the midterm super easy and a brutal final! Everyone complained for a regrade does not care. Equations she mentioned would be on formula sheet was not and equations on sheet was not used. Horrible!

one word: awful

Exam was way harder than the examples given on slides. Didn't give any practice questions outside of the modules, which she didn't provide any hints for. She teaches fast and tells you to be "intuitive" when teaching how to solve a problem which isn't useful at all. You need to have known chemistry concepts before taking the course.

The pace at which she lectures and her accent makes it difficult for students to follow along. Her exam was also really hard.

She seems nice and friendly but she is the toughest grader and she is incapable of making a fair exam. Do not, under any circumstances, ever, take a course taught by her.

A TERRIBLE prof. Not only is she very difficult to understand, but for all the sample problems she said "this was pulled from a previous final exam!" or "this is an example of a hard question!" but they were WAYYY easier than the questions in the final. The final was crazy hard, the questions she asked were way beyond what we had learned.

The final exam was too much even though if you prepared for it.

Final exam was unrealistically hard and very challenging no matter how prepared you may be

The course was divided into 2 modules. Module 2 was taught by Prof. Ruby Sullan. The first module was great since the prof is great. Module 2 though.... it's very very hard for me. Her lecture could be good, but her accent is very hard to understand. The test was very hard, much harder than what she taught. To anyone that got her class, good luck

dumbest prof ever. The exams sucked like the life she sucks out of you by the time you are done the class. If you have a chance, don't take her course. Thank god i didn't take her in class. Exam was super hard for no reason. even if you study you are not guarantied a high mark. please run if you see her.

The final exam will absolutely disintegrate anyone in its path. Whether you study or not, you will find it difficult and itll be so hard because you need to spend so much time to get it through but in the end youre constrained. Her timing may see logical, but once you go halfway, youll be like nani....

The final exam was completely ridiculous and had no relation to the content covered during lectures. Imagine taking an introductory chemistry course and getting a final exam question that asks you to find the determinant of a 10 by 10 matrix. THIS IS NOT AN OVER EXAGGERATION. Studying for a year still won't get you a 50 for the course.

The final exam was legit engineered to destroy the class average (as it was slightly high this year), except she WAY overdid it.

There's a time where my back end is still intact. NOT ANYMORE!!!!

all I have to say is no.

I now know what PTSD really feels like the word chemistry irritates my skin.

I think the website should be changed to allow a -100 just for this prof because of her unrealistic exams. She includes practice questions in lectures and says they are from a past exam. THIS IS STRAIGHT UP A LIE and a bigger scam than university tuition. For future students who are forced to take this course... MAY GOD HELP YOUR SOUL.

Horrible. the hardest exam I've ever had in my life. DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE TO STAY IN HER CLASS. SAVE YOURSELF AND YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.

The final exam was absolute bs. I really thought I was prepared but that hit me in the face like a truck. Her lecture material is okay, but the final exam didn't even seem to be related to the content....

She is very unfair and unpleasant.

Yall just dont.

This was UNBELIEVABLE SOOOOOO UNFAIR please Im really gonna transfer

No amount of studying will prepare you for her exam unless you have 20+ years experience as a NASA engineer with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Though she brings up practice questions (and claims it was from a past exam) during her lectures and gives out waayyy too much homework, none of that practice will actually be useful for the exam. None.

I can not even begin to say how horrible her final exam was. This exam had nothing to do with anything related to course content. Everything she said that would be on the exam was an absolute lie and a half. Unless you have to take this course, please stay away from her. You will save yourself from the trauma her exam gave all of us this year!

Miss girl really tried her hardest to fail the class. Dont take any classes with her... just simply run! Shes most probably laughing at our misery :)

she thinks shes something she isnt. someone needs to put her in her place.

Ever imagine what life is after death, well after going through this prof you would get a glimpse of the afterlife. This exam was mental torture. Rest in peace for my fallen classmates.

Run for the hills!!!! And if you think you ran far enough... keep running

I had read on here that she had hard exams, hard was definitely an understatement, excruciatingly painful would be a better way to describe it. She is really good at teaching, has lots of homework (that's too easy), and then BOOM, the hardest exam ever. It's impossible to do 50 chem questions in 3 hours especially when they have multiple parts.

BRUH let Me be straight with yall. U GONNA FAIL. Straight up Fail this term average was 46% u gonna fail. SHE is fine with lectures ( i guess i overall didn't enjoy them but they were ok) but the exam legit she thinking you applying for MCAT in gr 9 type level. Just trust me and pls don't take with this teacher

her lectures are so easy and simple, but the exam deadly our avg was about a 40%

She has great lectures and teaches well in lectures but her exams are incredibly difficult . The practice questions that she gives in lectures are nothing like the exam

It must haunt her at night knowing that her students are doing well in her class. I would describe her as a villain just there to destroy people's GPA...

The first professor in this course (professor vozzny) is one of the best profs you can have. Then when the class switched to the second half with prof sullan everything went downhill. The lectures were of good quality and everything seems simple. I studied everything I could and still could barely answer 1 question on this exam. good luck!

No matter how much you study, you still won't do well on the exam. The exam is rigged and literally designed to make you fail. Literally don't take a class from this prof. Our class average is a 46%. And its not the students fault... the prof's lecture practice questions were so easy compared to the actual exam... theres no way to do well

The exam was crazy. That's it. Her "past exam questions" in her lectures are nothing like the actual exam. The difficulty of the actual questions did not compare and I have never written an exam this hard. The questions she does in lecture cover the bare minimum and do not prepare students for what will be seen on the final.

Our exam average was 46%. In a class size of over 800 students. The moral is, if you don't have to take a class with her, please don't. You will regret it. She is crushing people's GPA and dreams with her undoable exams. She really thinks that we have a Ph.D. in chem or smth to give us such a hard exam. That exam was a guessing game for me.

If you see her name as your course instructor on acorn DROP OUT!! Just trust me. You'll thank me later.

She is like Lorenzo Buffon in chma11. Instead of kicking the ball, she kicks you out of the school.

dont not take her class

Lectures were good but that exam was hell. I've had hard exams before but this was a different plane of existence compared to those. 3 hours of soul crushing torture that had very little in common with what she taught in class. Professor if you're reading this, sorry, but that was the worst experience of my school life ever.

Not sure what kind of thrill she gets out of failing students and destroying GPA's but she should seek help about that x

first of all no hate to prof. just a lot of hate towards the exam. hope she reads these and switches up cause I will cry for the students that have her

I am a very good student. Exam was 30% and I had a 100% in the rest of my course. The final exam will single-handedly bring my average down. The exam was so hard that I believe that I will lose my 4.0. Her practice questions, masteringchem, textbook, etc., I practiced everything and there was barely any question I knew. the class average was 46%.

Well she has two sides. As a teacher she is very nice and explains hard concepts well but as a professor her exam was painful. The hardest practice question u do in her course will be the easiest in exam. If u wanna save ur gpa drop out of acorn rn.

If you want a GPA higher than this profs rating, don't take a course with this prof.

She's good at explaining concepts but she'll also tell us to use our intuition and rationalize to get the in-lecture practice problems. Not much help when you don't have previous knowledge on her content. I was doing well in the course up until her deadly final! Do extremely well in the first half with Prof Voznyy if you want a decent final grade.

I dropped from a 92 to 75 thanks to this exam, studied really hard for it too

Just so unnecessarily hard. Run from her as fast as you can

By far one of the worst professors at UTSC. Run as far away from her as possible. She gives horrible lectures and has the hardest exams that hardly relate to anything she teaches

RUN RUN RUN!!!!! Going into this course most people were scoring decently well, but this final exam was the biggest smack to the face. Think of getting smacked around by a UFC fighter and getting your faced smashed in, that was the equivalent to this final. I Studied so much for this exam and it was still extreme difficulty. GPA down the drain.

we get ten super easy questions on the final...but then the train hits you on some of the medium questions and then you just want to unalive urself for the hard questions. exam is freaking hell. might as well not practice because u will fail anyway! got near 100s on both midterms and still... GOODBYE 4.0 GPA!!!!!!

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. IT IS SO HARD FOR NO REASON WITH NO SUPPORT FROM RUBY

By far the hardest exam I've ever taken. 50 questions in 3 hours, when normally it's 20 questions in 2 hours. Not like it got easier to compensate either. Take this course if it's a prerequisite over the summer if you're able to. That prof is much easier.

The midterms were alright but the final was like an elder ring boss coked up on steroids or trying to 1v5 in Valorant as a silver vs immortals while flip resetting triple musty stalling off the celling in rocket league. Had to over 30% on the exam despite studying all of the lecture materials practice problems and clutchprep homework. Beware...

Her exams are way too hard and she's not even a good prof! It would be acceptable if the exams are hard and she was a good prof, but NO! She rushes everything and I end up not understanding anything. The 1/5 rating is a lie, I would give her a -10000000/5 rating

Final was horrible, rushes through the lecture material and the hard questions she went through are nothing like the final exam ones.

there's no point into practicing. u will fail, i promise.

midterms were doable, but the final was unforgivably brutal. She seems to be a very nice professor during lectures, but hell nah she really ruined everyone's gpa. Happy to say that one thing I genuinely learned is to avoid taking any courses with her, otherwise your dreams would be shattered.

I have nothing against Sullan as a person. She appears kind, capable of giving quality lectures. However, being a CHMA11 student, you are quick to realize her horrid testing style. Prof Sullan gave her students the most complex, repulsive and outright rancid exam I have ever come across. I do not understand what she achieves by failing her students

Professor Sullan seems to be to nice individual, but in terms of the final exam, I was surprised about the high level of difficulty in solving the majority of questions in a limited amount of time. It really hurts to work so hard throughout the semester just to have a single exam skew your GPA.

If you want a glimpse of hell then just write the chma11 exam. Even if you go through half of it you will taste hell.

EXAM VERY VERY HARD, YOU SHOULD DROP THIS COURSE AND TAKE IT WITH A DIFFERENT PROF TO SAVE YOUR GPA! The midterms were easy BUT THE EXAM tho, so better run to save your gpa.

If yall ever see this course and you dont need it, better run away cause this course is gonna haunt you in your dreams. More so the exam.

The exam took my sleep and peace away

Take it and don't look back. exam was legitimate hell and I wish that no one ever experiences this twice. lectures were ok, nothing special. THANK GOD this exam was multiple choice because at least you have a raw probability of getting 25% :). Ruby has ruined chemistry for me, this is my last chemistry course of undergrad. Good luck to you.

She is extremely nice but her rep for hard exams is really bad. This year our final marks were mixed/messed up even though we got them 2 weeks after our exams (a week later than the deadline). Its unfair towards students. We are STILL waiting for the correct marks. It is currently May 1st and the exam was written April 14th.

I have nothing against Prof Sullan as a person but oh boy. As a prof, this course went downhill right after the first half. Not only was the exam hard like HARD as in it had stuff i never heard of but the marks took forever to be released and still had wrong marks for some people. Bitter experience

Run away from Ruby as fast as you can. By far the worst class I have ever taken

Beware of her exams. They are nothing like what she teaches and does not prepare you well for the exam

previous chma11 student here - that exam still haunts me in my dreams and i am crying for yall that have to take this course (first part aint bad but the rest takes you down the deepest depths of hell)

Her accent is very difficult to understand and she doesn't try to clarify what she says. She teaches at her own pace, indifferent to whether or not the students can keep up and doesn't bother checking in with them to see if they are on the same page. She doesn't give any breaks and the questions done in lectures were also different from the exam.

Prepare to fail!!! this exam will haunt you for the rest of your life and no I'm not exaggerating. Good luck :)

Incredibly difficult exam.

Has yet to respond to two emails that I have sent. It has been 2 months. Exam was terrible and her teaching was unacceptable. They need to find a replacement.

wow just dont take it

by far the worst teacher you can have makes the simplest concepts hard for no reason

dificult

Beware of the final exam. Her midterm is alright, you can prepare for that. Her final is an academic terror. The questions are nothing like the ones she practices with you in lecture. Looking at the final exam makes you really question why you would want continue in the field of chemistry.

Horrible. Her final exam was absolutely horrible, the questions on the exam were way harder than her example questions she provided. I would be shocked if more than half the class was able to even pass it. Try to avoid this prof at all costs, I hear the other ones arn't as bad. T

get ready for the final before starting the course. just don't take the course and wait for an other time

The final is a true pain for this prof

Just completed the last exam, and I'm utterly speechless. Despite thorough preparation, the final exam questions seemed entirely unfamiliar. They were more challenging than anything encountered in the textbook or practice questions in her slides. I strongly advise against taking this course unless absolutely necessary.

One of the worst tests I've written so far at UTSC. Ruby derives pleasure in seeing her students fail her course hence the final exam being extremely difficult.

WORST PROF IN THE WHOLE UNI!!!! MAKES THE WORST EXAMS AND ACTUALLY WANTS ALL STUDENTS TO FAIL!!!! AVOID THIS PROF AT ALL TIMES TRUST ME!!!!!!!!!!! EXAMS ARE HORRENDOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE, THE QUESTIONS ARE NOT BASED ON HER LECTURES OR THE TEXTBOOK AND YOU WILL FAIL!!!!! WORST NIGHTMARE!!!!!!

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH RUBY SHE'LL RUIN YOUR LIFE LIKE SHE DID WITH MINES! THE FINAL WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. DO NOT TAKE IT UNLESS YOU WANT A LOW GPA

This was the worst exam I've taken in my whole life. I was warned by several students about how bad her finals are but somehow she managed to SURPASS my already horrible expectations.The questions were incomprehensible. Praying for her future students. My condolences

Difficult final exam.

Read her reviews before I met her, and was surprised by the bad comments considering she seems like a nice person. I TAKE THAT BACK COMPLETELY. That final... ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS! NO CORRELATION TO ANY OF HER PRACTISE PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER! I won't be surprised if over half the class fails. What kind of prof wants to see her students fail?!?

Just finished the final exam a few days ago, and I still get nightmares after it. The exam was extremely difficult, not related to any practice questions she did in lectures. Think carefully before doing this course if you want to maintain your mental health and GPA :)

She doesn't care at all whether you understand in lectures, and merely tells us to review the material later if you don't understand her explanations. The exam was a living hell, no amount of practice will prepare you for it. I didn't even know chemistry could be this hard, as I did well in last semester's chemistry finishing with an A+.

She's nice, but that's about her only redeeming factor. Her teaching is shoddy at best and she teaches far too fast. The exam was absurdly difficult and genuinely felt like guesswork as the problems were incomprehensible. Don't bother using old exams as practice, they're nothing like the exam she gave us and were much easier.

Final exam had me absolutely done for, have no clue where she pulled those questions from. Only 1 question was like the practice final

Absolutely NOTHING can prepare you for what's to come in the final. It was extremely difficult and discouraging. If you must take this course, do your best in the lab component and all the graded assignments prior to the final. If you wait until the final for a chance to boost your grade, you will very be disappointed. Good luck, you'll need it!

Worst prof I've had so far in university. If you can, avoid her at all costs unless you want your GPA to drop. I don't think I will have a good CGPA after this chem grade comes out. Teaching is so bad and voice so annoying I would rather listen to a 12 year old teach.

That final exam will forever traumatize me. I suggest you take this course in the summer with a different professor OR try your best to do good in the lab component and essay assignment. Good luck and wish you all the best.

She's a very fast lecturer, she advises us to rewatch the lectures at home and slow it down - her exam wasn't really close to the practice questions and my mark dropped approx 10% after the final...in my opinion she didn't explain some of her process to arrive at an answer clearly. I'd advise practicing what is learnt every day to stay on top of it

Run. She's the GPA killer. I had an A in CHMA10 and nothing could've prepared me for her hell. I have never hated a professor this much in my life. I repeat RUN. If you can avoid her please do it (I could not) I don't understand how she is allowed to teach. The midterm average was 43% and according to her that's a good average... idk how I survived

Lectures make you think the content is fair until you go to her exams and realize you haven't seen half the stuff on it and not for a lack of trying. Studied the lectures and textbook, did practice questions and was so lost on the final. Made to be impossible. Avoid her at all costs- you learn nothing and your gpa drops.

The worst chemistry professor I have ever had in university. She rushes through lectures without regard for the students' understanding of the material. Tests and exams contain material that wasn't even taught in class. Don't take her course if you don't have to.

The finals is nothing like she makes it seem especially in terms of difficulty. Just don't